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    "title": "Chapter 7 — Selfless Endurance",
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    "text": "## Chapter 7\n\n\nHeaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason\nwhy heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is\nbecause they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are\nable to continue and endure.\n\nTherefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in\nthe foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him,\nand yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has no\npersonal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?",
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